The Music Camp that Changes Lives

The Music Camp that Changes Lives

Forging a creative
musical community

Through our unique approach, we focus on improvisation and composition as the major tools for your musical growth. Study music theory, composition, literature, computer music, and chorus from composers, performers, and educators. Many of our faculty members were students at Walden before going on to study at some of the finest colleges and universities in the country.

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Collaborative musicianship & composition since 1972

Discover your individual voice.
Develop your own creative ideas.

Every student at the Walden School has an opportunity to exercise their creativity in a warm, supportive environment. Creating music in this kind of community instills confidence, discipline, a sense of belonging, and the pride of accomplishment.

“ Walden is not only an amazing musical community; it is an amazing community, period. A strong ethos of mutual respect, encouragement, and support for each person’s creativity pervades the campus and seems to lift every Walden student aloft. ”

– Parent of a Young Musicians Program Student

“ I found perhaps the most supportive environment I have ever witnessed in any music program. Everything that I experienced at Walden was designed and implemented toward a single end – the development of the individual student’s sense of her or his own worth as a creative human being. ”

– James Mobberley, composer

“ So much of who I am as a musician came out of my learning experience at Walden. It’s nearly impossible to describe the magic of retreating into music for an entire summer at Walden. It is there that I truly experienced music as a language – and learned that I could express myself in any number of ways and in any number of worlds – whether it be classical or jazz, piano performance or vocal performance. ”

– Young Musicians Program Alumnus

“ I was more productive during that week than I have been all year, and I absolutely cannot wait for next summer. ”